{"id":1559,"date":"2010-01-13T23:01:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T23:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1559"},"modified":"2013-11-11T23:46:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T23:46:06","slug":"a-day-of-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-day-of-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day of Snow…"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

I awoke this morning to the results of 8 hours of snowfall. The slight recent thaw had been engulfed, several inches of snow covering the garden, the car and of course the roads. We were once again cut off from the outside world, roads impassable. <\/p>\n

I looked out through the window at just after 7.30am. It was still snowing, and a magpie was perched at the rear of the garden. And then I saw the dog fox. \ud83d\ude00 The light was poor, I was indoors, and so there's no photo. He looked great though and was darting back and forth with the peanuts and sultanas that were on the ground and have become a favourite for the birds. And each time he stepped away, the magpie dropped down to steal a morsel. The trail cam caught a few minutes, from which this sequence is taken.<\/p>\n

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With the snow still falling (it eventually stopped some time around 10.00), it was once again a day working from home. I did get some photos though.<\/p>\n

<\/span> A squirrel was eyeing up the bird feeder<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span> The blue tits were flitting among the snow covered branches<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span> Even a goldfinch showed up<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span> As did a fieldfare (identification doubts, as ever, on this one)<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span> The blackbird looked but didn't take<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span> The sparrow had no such qualms<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span> A female chaffinch perched, waiting for her mate<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span> And the seagulls circled languidly overhead.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tonight the thaw has started. You can hear it: the sound of snow falling away from the shrubs, and great lumps sliding from the more solid structures. The roads should be fine tomorrow, even my road which has been under a couple of inches of ice for most of the past week. A return to normality beckons.
\"Nature<\/a><\/span>
Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 40D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[980,4,16],"tags":[33,1128,1136],"class_list":["post-1559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-foxes","category-snow","tag-birds","tag-fox","tag-snow","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}